I've seen them during the day and at night when there's something going on. Saw
two yesterday on foot patrol walking north along Main
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, cbrianwatkins@... wrote:
>
> This concerns me. I am out and about often on Cookman at night and rarely see
> any police on foot patrol. I see patrol cars cruise by on occasion but no
> foot patrol, which would help with mugging attempts I think (and overall
> crime in general)
>
> Am I missing them, or are they truly lacking at night in the downtown area?
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Hinge" <hinge98@...>
> Sender: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:42:25
> To: <AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com>
> Reply-To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: 2003
>
> Best comment so far. Right on the money.
>
> One of my co-workers wife's expressed concern about using the parking meters
> late in the evening. She's feels like a sitting duck in the dark while
> getting out her wallet, and having to hold her cell phone in one hand as a
> flashlight because the keypad is hard to see (I see people doing that every
> day). Is that not a very valid concern?
>
> It's not much different than the issue on my 200 block. Just this past
> weekend my next door neighbor started a conversation asking if I felt safe in
> reference to parking around the block, which makes the 3 occupied houses on
> my block look empty. Nobody is parking on 1st Ave, and the city refuses to
> budge about easing year round, till midnight parking. What happens when one
> of our houses gets broken into because we now look like easy targets? It's
> already happened once to my next door neighbor. Somebody climbed over his
> fence, into his locked back yard, and stole 2 bikes that were locked up back
> there. My downstairs neighbor, who's pretty tough, has also expressed
> concerns related to our abandoned street. That's why we are pressing our luck
> and parking out front. So far, no tickets.
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Dubrow <traderdube@> wrote:
> >
> > Many of you are personalizing the situation. The fact is that if you talk
> > to the business owners who rely on their business to live, they are down.
> > Some of them are holding out hope that in the long run the parking will pay
> > off.
> > Before the parking went into effect I know a couple of downtown residents
> > that parked 2 or 3 cars on Cookman, leaving them there for days at a time.
> > Similarly, we used to watch the owners/employees of stores park their cars
> > in front of their stores all day, yet they still complained they had no
> > business. And while we all know that the riots of July 4 are the
> > traditional date that started the decay of Asbury as a downtown shopping
> > mecca, it was the malls and free parking that had an equally bad affect on
> > downtowns in Red Bank and Long Branch as well as Asbury. And it has been
> > mentioned, where is the marketing for downtown AP? There is none, other
> > than a weekly huge email from the city, that basically promotes bars and
> > restaurants. All, 100% of the business owners I know and have recently
> > spoken with about the parking are/were in favor of the paid parking, but
> > that doesn't change the fact that they are going to have a helluva time
> > coming up with the Nov 1 rent check.
> >
> > And there is another issue that is not being discussed. The business owners
> > and their employees who work after dark, who work until 10PM and later.
> > They now have to walk 3-4-5 blocks to their cars at night. I have been told
> > that one person has already been accosted and robbed while walking to their
> > car. While paid parking is a fruitful plan, the fruit needs to start out as
> > seeds, or it's artificial; the implementation of park; The Parking Plan, is
> > either non-existent, or artificial.
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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